Blain Hailemariam
Abstract
Introduction
Attention Getter "With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long-established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us."
~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from a woodcut broadsheet that accompanied the Die Brücke exhibition at the Seifert factory, Dresden, 1906
German Expressionists are artists who are apart of German Expressionism. German Expressionism reached its peak in the 1920’s; “it was a part of early 20th-century in art, literature, music and theater.” It started …show more content…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Hubert Roestenburg, August Macke and many more were involved in this movement. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is the founder of the artists group Die Brucke, also known as “The Bridge”; this is what lead to German Expressionist art. Emil Nolde was a member of his group. He was considered as the greatest oil painter of the 20th century. Hubert Roestenburg was consider as a German Expressionist because critics believed his work fit in well with this group. This is because he embodies the spirt and the passion that is considered as German Expressionism. August Macke was apart of the Der Blaue Reiter, also known as “The Blue Rider.” German Expressionism was created with the collaboration of the Bridges and the Blue …show more content…
He was born on May 6, 1880 in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. After attending school in Perlen and Frankfurt, he majored in architecture at the Konigliche Technische Hochschule, also known in English as Royal Technical University, in Dresden. During his time at this university he met a man by the name of Fritz Bleyl, who he founded “The Bridge” with. “The Bridge” is a manifesto written by Ernst Kirchner. It sates, “Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us” After some time two other students, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, join Kirchner and Bleyl. They were very important figures in the German Expressionism art movement. Ernst Kirchner is the most talented and influential German Expressionist. Fear about humanity’s place in the modern world, lost feelings of spirituality and authenticity is what motivated him; this also was what motivated the whole movement. Kirchner did not agree with academic styles, he preferred and was inspired by the modern city. However, as an admirer of Albrecht Durer he restored the old art of woodblock printing and saw himself in the German
Abstract
Introduction
Attention Getter "With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long-established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us."
~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from a woodcut broadsheet that accompanied the Die Brücke exhibition at the Seifert factory, Dresden, 1906
German Expressionists are artists who are apart of German Expressionism. German Expressionism reached its peak in the 1920’s; “it was a part of early 20th-century in art, literature, music and theater.” It started …show more content…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Hubert Roestenburg, August Macke and many more were involved in this movement. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is the founder of the artists group Die Brucke, also known as “The Bridge”; this is what lead to German Expressionist art. Emil Nolde was a member of his group. He was considered as the greatest oil painter of the 20th century. Hubert Roestenburg was consider as a German Expressionist because critics believed his work fit in well with this group. This is because he embodies the spirt and the passion that is considered as German Expressionism. August Macke was apart of the Der Blaue Reiter, also known as “The Blue Rider.” German Expressionism was created with the collaboration of the Bridges and the Blue …show more content…
He was born on May 6, 1880 in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. After attending school in Perlen and Frankfurt, he majored in architecture at the Konigliche Technische Hochschule, also known in English as Royal Technical University, in Dresden. During his time at this university he met a man by the name of Fritz Bleyl, who he founded “The Bridge” with. “The Bridge” is a manifesto written by Ernst Kirchner. It sates, “Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us” After some time two other students, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, join Kirchner and Bleyl. They were very important figures in the German Expressionism art movement. Ernst Kirchner is the most talented and influential German Expressionist. Fear about humanity’s place in the modern world, lost feelings of spirituality and authenticity is what motivated him; this also was what motivated the whole movement. Kirchner did not agree with academic styles, he preferred and was inspired by the modern city. However, as an admirer of Albrecht Durer he restored the old art of woodblock printing and saw himself in the German